2 Chronicles 5:8

And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

In Context

7And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the house, even into the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubs.

9And the staves projected, and the heads of the staves were seen from the holy place in front of the oracle, they were not seen without: and there they were to this day.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:12And thou shalt cast for it four golden rings, and shalt put them on the four sides; two rings on the one side, and two rings on the other side.

Numbers 4:6And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staves through the rings.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 5:2-11

The Ark Placed in the Temple. ( b. c. 1004.) 1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God. 2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of… Read the whole commentary →

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